The night had come. Dials set up the city guard with extra equipment and had been listening in carefully to BB and Alexandria's conversations. Soon, he had a small army that was outside looking for the escaped Scott and Joey, the two had already made their way back to the ODETTA when they began to fight. Joey smacked Joey so hard he saw some teeth hit the wall.
"That's for blowing off my fingers."
"Anything else?"
Scott hadn't been allowed to indulge in his more violent urges, so he was willing to kill anything, even a friend. What added to it was him sleeping in bed, he preferred to be in a bathtub with some salt.
"Yeah, this is for letting me see my daughter again."
Joey lifted Scott off the ground with a ginormous bearhug. For some reason, it made the tension in Scott's mind ease. When BB and the others came back with a small group of shrimp he stole from the mess hall, all seemed fine. Though, one thing bothered him. The death dates over everyone's heads had been changed. Mistress was scheduled for the next nine days with poisoning. Sears was to be dead in an explosion in three weeks. BB simply closed his eyes. He couldn't deal with seeing his friends die. They were people he could actually say were his friends. Scott and Alexandria in particular were his best friends. Sears acted more as a standing dad. The more BB pondered that, the more he wondered if they were a family instead of a group of friends across time.
"Who wants beans?"
Scott came from his evening bath and began cooking beans. They were refried and all besides Mistress and Sears frowned at how disgusting it was. They ate it happily with little smiles on their faces. Perhaps all that time spent eating the worst food in the world had made this more appetizing. Both of them spent a year in prison and both had been in places where they had to eat some weird stuff. Sears would eat anything if it wasn't a coconut worm.
"Perhaps I should just make dinner."
ODETTA worked a small nuclear reactor and after playing around with it, she transported food that was about to go bad from throughout time to the group. Joey got peas and carrots with a tuna sandwich. BB got jam. Scott got some actually good beans.
"Anyone want to hear a story?"
The five who sat near Scott listened to him talk about how he wasn't involved with the assassinations of certain individuals such as the pope and a few royals. Because he, in his own words, "loved how good a driver they were and especially their brake lines. Not like I cut them or anything!"
"Does anyone else have a story?"
"I do."
Mistress had read the mind of Dials on their perfect escape. She didn't feel the hatred that she had when she read BB's. The human mind was complicated. They were grayer than her people. But before she could tell her theory, she was cut off by Scott who was still curious about their next adventure.
"Where to next?"
ODETTA gave an answer and none except Scott were feeling up to it. They were exhausted and needed at least six months to rest. BB's arm and leg ached, Sears had nightmares, and Scott needed to hop in his tub and rest.
"Has anyone here ever been to the moon?"
BB had a question for the one who was effectively his niece. It didn't have much to do with them going to the moon. Scott had already retreated to his bathtub.
"Can the future be changed? I have some information that would work best if told in private."
There was a half trick. He said that he wanted the room in front of everyone in order to tell ODETTA in private and to get curios enough to come out and spend time with him, which allowed him to keep an eye on them.
"Yes, it can. Time is ever changing, and I work my best to make sure that all of you are alive for as long as possible."
The others walked out but they most likely would be listening in on their words.
"When are we going to the moon?"
"For you, three weeks. for everyone else, it'll be around two thousand eight."
BB was alright with going to that time. It was closer to when he was from and it made him feel comfortable. But why were they going to the moon? If I ask, she might lie. If I don't, I have no way of knowing what to do when we get there.
"ODETTA, give me all the files on the moon. And I don't mean the normal stuff."
She understood as a door opened to the library and there sat about a thousand pages of moon files. He quickly read through it for about an hour. He was a fast reader. Though, he did have good reading comprehension. One of the things he didn't understand was how such things existed or could have been covered up for so long. It turned out there was an underground group of magicians, and I don't mean the birthday kind. I mean they bent the world around them as they were funded by the world governments and a large group of companies they owned.
"Is something wrong, BB?"
"Yes, explain the D.O.W.N organization. Especially the Boss, James Diostar."
"D.O.W.N was a shadow organization that employed magic in order to run the world via manipulating it. Most of their activities were centered around fighting extraterrestrials and James Diostar was their leader. See, D.O.W.N worked in a feudalist fashion as the Diostars were a minor clan. James, at the age of fifteen, killed his mentor and imprisoned his predecessor. By the age of twenty, he had already been married and sired two children with help of one, Maria York. Or Maria York-Diostar after their marriage. Around her third mental breakdown, she demanded that he begin taking things seriously and they should take one another's names."
"I don't care for his marriage issues. Tell me about what he did on the moon."
"On the moon with some close friends and family, he killed the emperor of a galactic empire and stole twenty troops. This led to the fall of mankind. We should just go there and sabotage a few things. It'll allow mankind a easier descent as more will be able to get cryosleep pods."
A group of men who ran the world from the shadows, an intergalactic empire, and a man who seems to be a conqueror of his own. This means that everything we've ever known was a lie. Perhaps the rest of this are lucky. We got the archives.
"Will this help us against Dials?"
"Yes. We'll be building an army. If things go according to plan, we have D.O.W.N on our side."
"I guess I'll enjoy the three weeks."
BB walked towards his family and never looked back.